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Email attachment question

Mahen Partha — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 19:17:42 GMT

Guys,

I tested the following piece for email attachment. It works great, I could see attachment on microsoft exchange and hotmail, but I could not see any attachment on yahoo.com. Instead the attachment, I am seeing the content written on the body. Can you guys help me here?

# uuencode myfile myfile > myfile.out
# cat content.txt myfile.out > final
# cat final|mailx -m -s "hello there" abc@yahoo.com

Thanx,
Mahen.

Re: Email attachment question

Hai Nguyen_1 — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 19:23:04 GMT

Mahen,

There are many good links in the forum on this. Below is an example:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xef2536e69499d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

For more similar links, try searching "attachment" in the forum.

Good Luck.

Hai

Re: Email attachment question

harry d brown jr — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 19:36:03 GMT

Try

uuencode myfile myfile.txt | mailx -m -s "hello there" abc@yahoo.com

And of course, what is in

content.txt?

live free or die
harry

Re: Email attachment question

Shannon Petry — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 20:04:40 GMT

mailx supports attachments? Last I checked, it did not. I had to use elm to do this. You can use sendmail as well, but think that mailx supports text only.

Search forums for mail and attachments, and you will get a ton of data.

The best part of using elm is that I did not have to uuencode manually, elm did this for me.

Regards,
Shannon

ps if you can find anything, I can post what I have working. Make sure the version of elm you are using supports attachments.

Re: Email attachment question

harry d brown jr — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 20:39:07 GMT

Shannon,

With the uuencode'ing of the "attachment", it doesn't matter if mailx supports attachments or not, as uuencode sends (in this case pipes it to mailx) the "attachment" as TEXT.

I use this method to send files and such from unix boxes to my M$ boxes all of the time.

live free or die
harry

Re: Email attachment question

Shannon Petry — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 21:00:13 GMT

Harry,

When I tried this approach, I received the uuencoded data at plain text, which I had to manually save, strip headers, and decode the data. Not as easy as elm.

Shannon

Re: Email attachment question

Paul Sperry — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 21:01:10 GMT

Try using elm.
It supports attachments, works like a charm.

Re: Email attachment question

harry d brown jr — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 21:18:11 GMT

Shannon,

I think the trick is to identify to the mail receiver what kind of attachment the uuencode'd data is. If it's a WORD DOC, aka a .doc then you do this:

uuencode someword.doc someword.doc | mailx -m -s "my word doc" user@domain.com

live free or die
harry

Re: Email attachment question

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:33:04 GMT

This script should work with ascii.

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&admit=-1335382922+1041874332031+28353475&docId=200000062684425

Three versions. A messed up relay server can make you think these scripts are broken. They probably aren't.

Stevve

Re: Email attachment question

Rita C Workman — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 18:55:42 GMT

Well there are a number of ways to do it. Each has it's good points.

I myself prefer to use elm ( as mailx is actually for message broadcasts, and elm and sendmail are true mailers--just my opinion)and then I like to utilize [include].

Here's a thread that gives you some insight in using the [include] statment to attach files:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/0,,0x41950559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Regards,
Rita